American Mold Guard (American Mold Guard) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $7.38 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2008)

American Mold Guard Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

American Mold Guard Quarterly Data
	Mar05	Jun05	Sep05	Dec05	Mar06	Jun06	Sep06	Dec06	Mar07	Jun07	Sep07	Dec07	Mar08
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial								2.33	2.29	2.29	1.49	1.30

Competitive Comparison of American Mold Guard's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, American Mold Guard's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

American Mold Guard's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, American Mold Guard's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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American Mold Guard Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2008 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $7.38 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

American Mold Guard  (OTCPK:AMGI) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.

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